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Commander North Commodore Masood Khurshid inaugurated campaign by planting a tree sapling at Margalla Green Golf Club, Islamabad.
The campaign is marked to contribute in improving ecosystem, subsiding climate changes and meaningfully participate in national cause. Pakistan Navy always focuses on tree plantation campaigns for better and healthier future.
The campaign is marked to contribute in improving ecosystem, subsiding climate changes and meaningfully participate in national cause. Pakistan Navy always focuses on tree plantation campaigns for better and healthier future.
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Sustaining Existing Forests can Help Fight Climate Change
Written by AZoCleantech
May 21 2021
Some climate activists advocate large-scale tree-planting campaigns in forests around the world to suck up heat-trapping carbon dioxide and help rein in climate change.
But in a Perspectives article scheduled for publication May 21 in the journal Science, a University of Michigan climate scientist and his University of Arizona colleague say the idea of planting trees as a substitute for the direct reduction of greenhouse gas emissions could be a pipe dream.
"We can't plant our way out of the climate crisis," said Arizona's David Breshears, a top expert on tree mortality and forest die-off in the West. His co-author is Jonathan Overpeck, dean of the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability and an expert on paleoclimate and climate-vegetation interactions.
Instead of wasting money by planting lots of trees in a way that is destined to fail, it makes more sense to focus on keeping existing forests healthy so they can continue to act as carbon "sinks," removing carbon from the atmosphere through photosynthesis and storing it in trees and soils, according to the researchers. At the same time, emissions must be reduced as much as possible, as quickly as possible.
Overpeck and Breshears say they hope the role of the world's forests--and specifically the urgent need to protect existing forests and keep them intact--is thoroughly debated when the world's climate action leaders gather at the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow this November.
"Policymakers need to enable new science, policy and finance mechanisms optimized for the disturbance and vegetation change that is unstoppable, and also to ensure that the trees and forests we wish to plant or preserve for the carbon they sequester survive in the face of climate change and other human threats," Overpeck and Breshears wrote.
"Failure to meet this challenge will mean that large terrestrial stores of carbon will be lost to the atmosphere, accelerating climate change and the impacts on vegetation that threaten many more of the ecosystem services on which humans depend."
Keeping forests healthy will require a new approach to forest management, one that Overpeck and Breshears call managing for change. As a first step, policymakers and land managers need to acknowledge that additional large-scale vegetation changes are inevitable.
Climate change has been implicated in record-setting wildfires in the western United States, Australia and elsewhere, as well as extensive tree die-offs that are largely due to hotter, drier climate extremes. Those disturbing trends are expected to accelerate as the climate warms, according to Overpeck and Breshears.
"Even in a world where climate change is soon halted, global temperature rise will likely reach between 1.5 and 2 C above pre-industrial levels, with all the associated extreme heat waves that brings, and thus global vegetation will face up to double the climate change already experienced," they wrote.
At the same time, deforestation continues to expand globally and is especially damaging in tropical forests, which hold vast amounts of biodiversity and sequestered carbon.
The next step toward a new managing-for-change paradigm is to manage forests proactively for the vegetation changes that can be anticipated--instead of trying to maintain forests as they were in the 20th century, Overpeck and Breshears say.
Managing for change means, for example, more aggressive thinning of forests to reduce the buildup of fuels that stoke massive wildfires. It also means selectively replacing some trees--after a wildfire, for example--that are no longer in optimal climate zones with new species that will thrive now and in coming decades.
Such activities, where needed, will inevitably increase the costs of forest management, according to the researchers. But such costs should be considered a prudent investment, one that helps preserve an underappreciated service that forests provide to humanity for free: carbon storage, also known as carbon sequestration.
Forests are already managed to preserve the natural resources and ecosystem services they provide. In addition to supplying timber, fuelwood, fiber and other products, forests clean the air, filter the water, and help control erosion and flooding. They preserve biodiversity and promote soil formation and nutrient cycling, while offering recreational opportunities such as hiking, camping, fishing and hunting.
Carbon sequestration should rank high on the list of invaluable services that forests provide, and efforts to preserve and enhance this vital function should be funded accordingly, Overpeck and Breshears say.
For example, there's a big opportunity to improve the ability of forests to store carbon through increased use of biochar, a form of charcoal produced by exposing organic waste matter--such as wood chips, crop residue or manure--to heat in a low-oxygen environment. Large amounts of wood generated during forest thinning projects could be converted to biochar, then added to forest soils to improve their health and increase the amount of carbon that is locked away, Overpeck says.
"Thinning of forests, conversion of the removed wood to biochar and burial of the biochar in forest soils is a way to bring new jobs to forested rural areas while allowing forests to play a bigger role in keeping carbon out of the atmosphere and thus fighting climate change," he said. "Forest carbon management could be a boon for rural areas in need of new economic engines."
In the long run, such projects are likely to benefit forests and enhance their ability to store carbon far more than massive tree-planting campaigns conducted without appropriate management strategies, according to Overpeck and Breshears.
"Tree-planting has great appeal to some climate activists because it is easy and not that expensive," Breshears said. "But it's like bailing water with a big hole in the bucket: While adding more trees can help slow ongoing warming, we're simultaneously losing trees because of that ongoing warming."
In their Perspectives article, Overpeck and Breshears explore the implications of a new study by Ond?ej Mottl et al., also scheduled for publication May 21 in Science, titled "Global acceleration in rates of vegetation change over the past 18,000 years."
Source: https://umich.edu/
Written by AZoCleantech
May 21 2021
Some climate activists advocate large-scale tree-planting campaigns in forests around the world to suck up heat-trapping carbon dioxide and help rein in climate change.
But in a Perspectives article scheduled for publication May 21 in the journal Science, a University of Michigan climate scientist and his University of Arizona colleague say the idea of planting trees as a substitute for the direct reduction of greenhouse gas emissions could be a pipe dream.
"We can't plant our way out of the climate crisis," said Arizona's David Breshears, a top expert on tree mortality and forest die-off in the West. His co-author is Jonathan Overpeck, dean of the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability and an expert on paleoclimate and climate-vegetation interactions.
Instead of wasting money by planting lots of trees in a way that is destined to fail, it makes more sense to focus on keeping existing forests healthy so they can continue to act as carbon "sinks," removing carbon from the atmosphere through photosynthesis and storing it in trees and soils, according to the researchers. At the same time, emissions must be reduced as much as possible, as quickly as possible.
Overpeck and Breshears say they hope the role of the world's forests--and specifically the urgent need to protect existing forests and keep them intact--is thoroughly debated when the world's climate action leaders gather at the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow this November.
"Policymakers need to enable new science, policy and finance mechanisms optimized for the disturbance and vegetation change that is unstoppable, and also to ensure that the trees and forests we wish to plant or preserve for the carbon they sequester survive in the face of climate change and other human threats," Overpeck and Breshears wrote.
"Failure to meet this challenge will mean that large terrestrial stores of carbon will be lost to the atmosphere, accelerating climate change and the impacts on vegetation that threaten many more of the ecosystem services on which humans depend."
Keeping forests healthy will require a new approach to forest management, one that Overpeck and Breshears call managing for change. As a first step, policymakers and land managers need to acknowledge that additional large-scale vegetation changes are inevitable.
Climate change has been implicated in record-setting wildfires in the western United States, Australia and elsewhere, as well as extensive tree die-offs that are largely due to hotter, drier climate extremes. Those disturbing trends are expected to accelerate as the climate warms, according to Overpeck and Breshears.
"Even in a world where climate change is soon halted, global temperature rise will likely reach between 1.5 and 2 C above pre-industrial levels, with all the associated extreme heat waves that brings, and thus global vegetation will face up to double the climate change already experienced," they wrote.
At the same time, deforestation continues to expand globally and is especially damaging in tropical forests, which hold vast amounts of biodiversity and sequestered carbon.
The next step toward a new managing-for-change paradigm is to manage forests proactively for the vegetation changes that can be anticipated--instead of trying to maintain forests as they were in the 20th century, Overpeck and Breshears say.
Managing for change means, for example, more aggressive thinning of forests to reduce the buildup of fuels that stoke massive wildfires. It also means selectively replacing some trees--after a wildfire, for example--that are no longer in optimal climate zones with new species that will thrive now and in coming decades.
Such activities, where needed, will inevitably increase the costs of forest management, according to the researchers. But such costs should be considered a prudent investment, one that helps preserve an underappreciated service that forests provide to humanity for free: carbon storage, also known as carbon sequestration.
Forests are already managed to preserve the natural resources and ecosystem services they provide. In addition to supplying timber, fuelwood, fiber and other products, forests clean the air, filter the water, and help control erosion and flooding. They preserve biodiversity and promote soil formation and nutrient cycling, while offering recreational opportunities such as hiking, camping, fishing and hunting.
Carbon sequestration should rank high on the list of invaluable services that forests provide, and efforts to preserve and enhance this vital function should be funded accordingly, Overpeck and Breshears say.
For example, there's a big opportunity to improve the ability of forests to store carbon through increased use of biochar, a form of charcoal produced by exposing organic waste matter--such as wood chips, crop residue or manure--to heat in a low-oxygen environment. Large amounts of wood generated during forest thinning projects could be converted to biochar, then added to forest soils to improve their health and increase the amount of carbon that is locked away, Overpeck says.
"Thinning of forests, conversion of the removed wood to biochar and burial of the biochar in forest soils is a way to bring new jobs to forested rural areas while allowing forests to play a bigger role in keeping carbon out of the atmosphere and thus fighting climate change," he said. "Forest carbon management could be a boon for rural areas in need of new economic engines."
In the long run, such projects are likely to benefit forests and enhance their ability to store carbon far more than massive tree-planting campaigns conducted without appropriate management strategies, according to Overpeck and Breshears.
"Tree-planting has great appeal to some climate activists because it is easy and not that expensive," Breshears said. "But it's like bailing water with a big hole in the bucket: While adding more trees can help slow ongoing warming, we're simultaneously losing trees because of that ongoing warming."
In their Perspectives article, Overpeck and Breshears explore the implications of a new study by Ond?ej Mottl et al., also scheduled for publication May 21 in Science, titled "Global acceleration in rates of vegetation change over the past 18,000 years."
Source: https://umich.edu/
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President Alvi urges nation to increase forestation
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8:57 PM | May 25, 2021
In response to the rising climate changes and global warming, President Dr Arif Alvi, on Tuesday has urged for increasing forestation in the country.
He expressed these remarks at a briefing given by Senior Vice President Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company, Syed Zaheer Mehdi, on Miyawaki Forest, in Islamabad today (Tuesday).
He emphasised the need for enhanced tree plantation to reduce pollution and improve air quality in urban areas.
The President said the Government is making serious efforts to enhance forest coverage by undertaking plantation drives to plant 10 billion trees in the country.
Furthermore, he said for Pakistan the Miyawaki forests are best suitable as the trees grow faster and denser which will filter out the pollution, providing a pure environment to the country.
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8:57 PM | May 25, 2021
In response to the rising climate changes and global warming, President Dr Arif Alvi, on Tuesday has urged for increasing forestation in the country.
He expressed these remarks at a briefing given by Senior Vice President Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company, Syed Zaheer Mehdi, on Miyawaki Forest, in Islamabad today (Tuesday).
He emphasised the need for enhanced tree plantation to reduce pollution and improve air quality in urban areas.
The President said the Government is making serious efforts to enhance forest coverage by undertaking plantation drives to plant 10 billion trees in the country.
Furthermore, he said for Pakistan the Miyawaki forests are best suitable as the trees grow faster and denser which will filter out the pollution, providing a pure environment to the country.
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PM in Haripur for tree plantation.
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12:08 PM | May 27, 2021
Prime Minister Imran Khan reached Haripur district on Thursday to ensure attendance at a ceremony pertaining to the Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Program.
PM Imran Khan will be briefed on the achievements of the Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Program by Special Assistant for Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam.
The event will be addressed by the Prime Minister, followed by a tree plantation by him.
Briefing on "Nature Capital of Pakistan" of United Nations Environment Program will also be given to the PM.
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12:08 PM | May 27, 2021
Prime Minister Imran Khan reached Haripur district on Thursday to ensure attendance at a ceremony pertaining to the Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Program.
PM Imran Khan will be briefed on the achievements of the Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Program by Special Assistant for Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam.
The event will be addressed by the Prime Minister, followed by a tree plantation by him.
Briefing on "Nature Capital of Pakistan" of United Nations Environment Program will also be given to the PM.
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President Alvi urges nation to increase forestation
https://nation.com.pk/NewsSource/web-desk
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8:57 PM | May 25, 2021
In response to the rising climate changes and global warming, President Dr Arif Alvi, on Tuesday has urged for increasing forestation in the country.
He expressed these remarks at a briefing given by Senior Vice President Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company, Syed Zaheer Mehdi, on Miyawaki Forest, in Islamabad today (Tuesday).
He emphasised the need for enhanced tree plantation to reduce pollution and improve air quality in urban areas.
The President said the Government is making serious efforts to enhance forest coverage by undertaking plantation drives to plant 10 billion trees in the country.
Furthermore, he said for Pakistan the Miyawaki forests are best suitable as the trees grow faster and denser which will filter out the pollution, providing a pure environment to the country.
I would like to add one possible suggestion. I don tknow how many PDF'ers are aware; in Greece, when a child is born, parents will plant an olive tree. I loved that tradition. If we could all adopt that it will really go a long way as well.
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This is a brilliant initiative by PTI. Do not believe any other party would have ever cared for it.
I have two concerns though. A) Monoculture or limited tree diversity, and B) artificial symmetrical plantations. Both of these are unhealthy for the trees and/or the local ecology and bio-diversity.
I have two concerns though. A) Monoculture or limited tree diversity, and B) artificial symmetrical plantations. Both of these are unhealthy for the trees and/or the local ecology and bio-diversity.
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Congrats to #Pakistan as it hosts #WorldEnvironmentDay
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Pak Navy celebrated World Environment Day highlighting significance of sustainable environment in Pakistan. PN undertook various initiatives to secure marine environment & restore Eco System.
On this day, PN reaffirms its resolve to further contribute towards safe environment.
On this day, PN reaffirms its resolve to further contribute towards safe environment.
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"I salute what Prime Minister Imran Khan has done in promising to plant 10 Billion Trees ", said British PM Boris Johnson at High Level event organised to celebrate World Environment Day 2021 with Pakistan as the global host.
This is the first time Pakistan has hosted such an event.
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This is the first time Pakistan has hosted such an event.
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Ecosystem restoration
Naveed Mushtaq
June 05, 2021
This year’s World Environment Day is being celebrated under the theme of “Ecosystem Restoration”.
The ecosystem restoration is based on various contours: Growing trees, greening cities, rewilding gardens, changing diets or cleaning up rivers and coasts. It means assisting in the recovery of ecosystems that have been degraded or destroyed, as well as protecting the ecosystems that are still intact. Healthier ecosystems, with comfortable biodiversity, produces greater benefits such as more fertile lands, more timber and fish production or natural food stocks, further paving the way of green revolution.
Launching hallmark initiatives to promote the restoration of ecosystem on real grounds, Pakistan is hosting the World Environment Day of this year, given its huge focus on restoring the natural ecosystem, the one conducive to human life.
The Pakistan’s Government also envisions to restore and augment the country’s forests through 10 Billion Tree Tsunami spread project will be completed over five years. It covers restoring mangroves in marine environment and forests in the heartland in general, as well as planting trees in urban settings; schools, colleges, public parks and other green belts in particular. As the UN has announced this decade for ‘ecosystem restoration’, nations are assuring to bring 350 million hectares of the world’s deforested and degraded land into restoration. This time frame also correspondents with the deadline of attaining the UN-led Sustainable Development Goals.
To visualize the high value and the critical manifestation the Environment Day entails, Pakistan Navy conducts a range of activities, highlighting environment as the basic underpinning of elements of national power, awakening common public along with other major agencies, departments, and main stake-holders. In particular, the littoral areas of Pakistan are core focus of Pakistan Navy to make them more resistant to the environment degradation. Pakistan Navy being a major stakeholder has already taken commendable initiatives and yet again this year Pakistan Navy is determined to celebrate the day with full zeal and fervor.
Pakistan Navy has launched various initiatives, such as trees and mangroves plantation campaign, banned use of polythene bags in naval premises, collection of solid waste in harbors and installation of reed bed reverse osmosis plants for sewerage water treatment in residential areas. In addition, relevant government and non-government organizations are also sensitized and their co-operation solicited in undertaking these environment protection measures.
Furthermore, taking a lead from Federal Government’s Green initiatives (GI), Pakistan Navy annual tree plantation campaign has been a leap forward in preserving environment. Annual tree Plantation campaign includes mangrove plantation campaign in coastal and creeks areas, reviving of forests in Margallah hills and nourishment of green belts under various seasonal drives and ‘Sur Subz’ initiatives.
Notwithstanding, the sheer richness of biodiversity also has human benefits. Many new medicines are harvested from nature, such as a fungi that grows on the fur of sloths and can fight cancer. Wild varieties of domesticated animals and crops are also crucial as some will have already solved the challenge of, for example, coping with drought or salty soils.
Likewise, if money is a measure, the services provided by ecosystems are estimated to be worth trillions of dollars, double the world’s GDP. The reality would always remain that the air we breathe to the food we eat all rely on ecosystems. If undamaged, this produces a finely balanced, healthy system which contributes to a healthy sustainable planet.
In a nutshell, moreover, the emergence of COVID-19, impacting severely the South Asian region, have underscored the fact that when we destroy ecosystem we destroy the system that supports human life. Given these circumstances, it is pertinent to highlight and address the issue of ecosystem degradation and its impact on our lives.
Naveed Mushtaq
June 05, 2021
This year’s World Environment Day is being celebrated under the theme of “Ecosystem Restoration”.
The ecosystem restoration is based on various contours: Growing trees, greening cities, rewilding gardens, changing diets or cleaning up rivers and coasts. It means assisting in the recovery of ecosystems that have been degraded or destroyed, as well as protecting the ecosystems that are still intact. Healthier ecosystems, with comfortable biodiversity, produces greater benefits such as more fertile lands, more timber and fish production or natural food stocks, further paving the way of green revolution.
Launching hallmark initiatives to promote the restoration of ecosystem on real grounds, Pakistan is hosting the World Environment Day of this year, given its huge focus on restoring the natural ecosystem, the one conducive to human life.
The Pakistan’s Government also envisions to restore and augment the country’s forests through 10 Billion Tree Tsunami spread project will be completed over five years. It covers restoring mangroves in marine environment and forests in the heartland in general, as well as planting trees in urban settings; schools, colleges, public parks and other green belts in particular. As the UN has announced this decade for ‘ecosystem restoration’, nations are assuring to bring 350 million hectares of the world’s deforested and degraded land into restoration. This time frame also correspondents with the deadline of attaining the UN-led Sustainable Development Goals.
To visualize the high value and the critical manifestation the Environment Day entails, Pakistan Navy conducts a range of activities, highlighting environment as the basic underpinning of elements of national power, awakening common public along with other major agencies, departments, and main stake-holders. In particular, the littoral areas of Pakistan are core focus of Pakistan Navy to make them more resistant to the environment degradation. Pakistan Navy being a major stakeholder has already taken commendable initiatives and yet again this year Pakistan Navy is determined to celebrate the day with full zeal and fervor.
Pakistan Navy has launched various initiatives, such as trees and mangroves plantation campaign, banned use of polythene bags in naval premises, collection of solid waste in harbors and installation of reed bed reverse osmosis plants for sewerage water treatment in residential areas. In addition, relevant government and non-government organizations are also sensitized and their co-operation solicited in undertaking these environment protection measures.
Furthermore, taking a lead from Federal Government’s Green initiatives (GI), Pakistan Navy annual tree plantation campaign has been a leap forward in preserving environment. Annual tree Plantation campaign includes mangrove plantation campaign in coastal and creeks areas, reviving of forests in Margallah hills and nourishment of green belts under various seasonal drives and ‘Sur Subz’ initiatives.
Notwithstanding, the sheer richness of biodiversity also has human benefits. Many new medicines are harvested from nature, such as a fungi that grows on the fur of sloths and can fight cancer. Wild varieties of domesticated animals and crops are also crucial as some will have already solved the challenge of, for example, coping with drought or salty soils.
Likewise, if money is a measure, the services provided by ecosystems are estimated to be worth trillions of dollars, double the world’s GDP. The reality would always remain that the air we breathe to the food we eat all rely on ecosystems. If undamaged, this produces a finely balanced, healthy system which contributes to a healthy sustainable planet.
In a nutshell, moreover, the emergence of COVID-19, impacting severely the South Asian region, have underscored the fact that when we destroy ecosystem we destroy the system that supports human life. Given these circumstances, it is pertinent to highlight and address the issue of ecosystem degradation and its impact on our lives.
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